On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 10:24:00 AM Arend van Spriel wrote:
> the cfg80211_rx_mgmt() call could be done with GFP_KERNEL flag in
> brcmfmac.
No, you can't. In the cfg80211_rx_mgmt(), @gfp used for memory allocation under
spinlock. So, it is done while in_atomic() is true. One can't use waiting GFP_KERNEL
in this case. Quote from cfg80211_rx_mgmt() (see net/wireless/mlme.c):
spin_lock_bh(&wdev->mgmt_registrations_lock);
<skip>
list_for_each_entry(reg, &wdev->mgmt_registrations, list) {
/* Indicate the received Action frame to user space */
if (nl80211_send_mgmt(rdev, wdev, reg->nlportid,
freq, sig_mbm,
buf, len, flags, gfp))
continue;
result = true;
break;
}
spin_unlock_bh(&wdev->mgmt_registrations_lock);
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